The the devils arthmicetic is about a girl named Hannah.She gets trapped in a Poland.The book is about history and how the nazi hurt jews.The stroy begins when hannah was chosen symbolically welcome the spirit of the Prophet Elijah. Then she looked though a door and looked in to the past.She got a number tatooed on her arm.The number was J197241. The "J" stands for Jew. "1" is because she feels that she is all alone. "9" is pronounced like the German word for "no", as in "No, I will not die here." "7" is for each and every day of the week that she stays alive. "2" is for Gitl and Shmuel. "4" is for the four members of her family. And finally, "1" again--because no matter what, it boils down to her survival and her memories.
Hannah meets Rivka, a ten-year-old girl who understands much about the camp and how to survive there.